User interface design helps us adapt the systems we use to serve a broad set of interests and backgrounds -- especially this very website. In the spirit of Public Lab collaborative work, this page is for sharing and discussing user interface related information. A number of projects are in progress; we work to make sure they are broken into small enough parts so that people can take them on and solve them. Some are listed at the bottom of this page. **** ### Updates [notes:grid:pin:ui] **** ## Workflow We are using this shared [Google Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TCZoTfuhamRVrUak8aDgqJAwSgyhRtZg2Pgacl2_4zc/edit?usp=slides_home&ths=true) to iterate on design solutions, as well as [Froala Design Blocks](https://www.froala.com/design-blocks/) and their [drag and drop editor](https://www.froala.com/design-blocks/webpage-builder) to develop design solutions for these pages. Please [post a proposal or sketch](/post) if you'd like to get involved! **** ## Questions [questions:ui] **** ## Design group We are looking to work with community members and people looking to get involved in UI design on Public Lab -- please join the group below to help out! [people:group:design] **** ## Open issues Here are some (disorganized) open design issues we're trying to work on in GitHub: **** ## Resources ### Bootstrap Our site uses Bootstrap 4 to have a consistent visual style -- it includes ready made buttons, menus, forms, and many other elements. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/ ### Icons On our website, we use Font Awesome icons in version 4.7+ and 5+ -- https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/ [](/i/26669) ...
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| nshapiro | "Thanks so much, Jeff! I think we know that there are many many pain points. Here we have collected some of them https://github.com/publiclab/SmART-..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Nick - we've been starting to organize some user interface design materials and techniques on https://publiclab.org/wiki/ui, mostly focused on ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| kgradow1 | "Obviously with some modification for context " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| kgradow1 | "I really liked the suggestion that was made at the Barnraising to put the agile learning quotes front and center on the website. "Whoever comes is ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "For an interesting spin on this (all be it force directed) go to Tag Overflow and click on one of the tag nodes. : ) " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "Hey everyone! For what it's worth I was heavily inspired by this project Tag Overflow, the code for which is here and from an initial version, her..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Ah, and to your question, by "primary tag" I just meant the tag for the tag page you're looking at, so for /tag/onions, just onions. If we implemen..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, @liz and @gretchen - unfortunately, there is a direct link between site slowness and capacity costs and database queries such as required by a ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @gretchen , do you have any more comments specifically on the interrelatedness of tags? That's what we are discussing here, rather than the adja..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "I think we should distinguish between tags and topics. I think, while we still don't use the word "topic" widely on the site, we have the opportuni..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "@cfastie, I have those same questions too re: many tags, one wiki; one tag, many wikis. I'm hoping we can start creating primary wikis that are top..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| liz | "quick question -- are "primary tags" the most interconnected tags, or would there be a manual step of choosing them? Glad to see there is a way to..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| liz | "Only two things seem strange @cfastie ? ;) -- then perhaps we're doing better than expected! :D " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "I left a long response to this with a possible initial solution: Cool, thanks Liz! To try for one stab at a narrower feature towards this goal, w..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Also, this issue which will help us count all contributors on a topic will help generate a broader picture of topic-specific community: https://gi..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Via @liz note here: Let's go back to basics on this issue :) What is the goal of visualizing tags? For me, visualizing tags is a way to visually..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Maybe more useful than a long list of popular/recent/related notes in the sidebar is the one or two real research notes (not newsletters, events, o..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The dashboard feed is a mix of research notes, comments, questions, and events. The display can be limited to a subset of these using a dropdown me..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Thanks for pointing that out, Chris - and I agree on point 2, that's one reason @liz started this issue. From your 3) i see a potential suggestion..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "You might want to point out that you are referring to the left sidebar which shows up on a subset of publiclab pages. I don't think I have ever f..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@tommystyles this may be related to our discussion last week! @liz also take a peek over here, thanks! :-) " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Another thing that makes tag pages sort of mysterious is that you can get to one by searching for "https://publiclab.org/tag/balloon-mapping", but ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Tommy, I just learned last month that when you search for a tag that has been used at publiclab.org you can get two different results. If the t..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@stevie @gretchengehrke @liz -- this last diagram is a stab at explaining the site to newcomers; it's just a first step but thought you might have ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago |